Matt Le Tissier's Chelsea and Tottenham combined XI

Matt Le Tissier has named his Chelsea and Tottenham combined XI

Excuses won’t go down well anyway. What, are we going to say it the year after? ‘Oh we’ve got another new stadium’

Jermaine Jenas

A lot hangs on the ability of Dele Alli to continue his meteoric rise and to that end Jenas says Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy should slap a £200m release cause on the England midfielder now.

After Neymar’s move from Barcelona to PSG earlier this summer turned the transfer market on its head, Jenas believes nothing short of a potential world-record transfer fee would detract the vultures if Alli has the season he thinks he will.

“If I was Daniel Levy I would be putting £200m on him right now and I know he won’t take a penny less,” Jenas said. “He’s that valuable to the club.

“Dele has something special at that club and with that group of fans. If he walks into that new stadium next year and feels what I expect him to feel, it will be tough for him to leave.

“But leading up to the World Cup you can see him being the poster boy for England so it’s a big year for Dele to put himself on the global scale. From Tottenham’s point of view it may be a bit scary as I don’t see how they keep him.

“If he has a season like he has just enjoyed then performs well for England, you can pretty much say he has gone to Real Madrid or Barcelona just like that.”